Google's Android for phones nears release

Google is everywhere, with its ubiquitous Web search engine, Google Maps for navigation, Google Docs online office suite, Google Checkout shopping and most recently, Google Chrome Web browser. Next up: Google’s Android operating system for mobile phones, likely to debut in the weeks ahead.

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Congress Questions Google's Katrina Maps

A congressional subcommittee accused Google on Friday of "airbrushing history" by replacing post-Hurricane Katrina satellite imagery on its popular map portal with images of the region taken before the storm's devastation.

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Google Opens Block-Long Office in N.Y.

It's so big, you won't even need Google Maps to find it. Internet search engine Google Inc. has a new home in New York: a 300,000-square foot, three-floor office that covers a Manhattan city block.

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Google Upgrades Mapping Tools

Google Inc. on Monday released the latest upgrades to the mapping tools that rank among the company's biggest success outside the Internet-leading search engine that steers much of the Web's traffic.

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Real Rochester in Nevada eludes Google Maps

Grumpy Editor yesterday pointed out that Google Maps' recent placement of a new key Nevada city --- labeled Rochester --- between Las Vegas and Henderson turned out to be a phantom site. There is no such place.

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Google on Tuesday announced a new Maps feature to help make it easier to determine the availability of flu vaccine.

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Google Maps places phantom city near Las Vegas

Overnight, a new key city --- oops! make that a Nevada ghost town --- surfaces near Las Vegas, according to Google Maps, and that is causing some red faces at Google, notes Grumpy Editor.

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Today, as soon as Google showed off its beta GPS navigator, the stocks of Garmin, TomTom and other companies in that industry fell into the toilet. It's hard to compete with free Google apps, but that's not why they're screwed...

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Since its inception, Google Maps has always rolling out little tweaks and new features that are useful. But today comes the first large-scale overhaul of the look and feel of the service in quite a while. But you may not even notice it.

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Many organisations working to preserve global cultural heritage - both tangible and intangible - have been using online media to support their efforts. On October 6, the World Monument Fund (WMF) published the 2010 world monument watch list plotting the dozens of villages, build …

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Google Maps been steadily crowdsourcing information from users and authoritative sources that who can share detailed information about the changes in the physical world, such as new roads, water bodies and more.

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THEY know where you are and where you have been but now, with the help of internet mapping technology, advertisers are trying to predict what you want.

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Finding a business with Street View just became easier. For example, if you search for "thai restaurants near mountain view" on Google Maps, and click on a search result, a bubble pops up with various links, including a link to "Street View".

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Any one who commutes in major cities knows the value of back roads when it comes to avoiding traffic on the highways during peak rush hour times.

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As an online free mapping service, Google Maps is a great product. But it's lacking in certain parts of the world.

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Slowly but surely, Google Maps is filling up with more and more places. If you do a search in a major city, you are likely to find landmarks, museums, famous stores and restaurants labeled right on the map even if you did not specifically search for them.

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A French company is taking Google Maps to court for unfair competition, seeking 500,000 euros (706,000 dollars) in damages from the US-based Internet giant, a judicial official said Wednesday.

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Google Maps is an incredibly useful tool for searching for pretty much anything in a specific geographic area, but I used to find it annoying that I would have to conduct multiple, separate searches in Google Maps for various items along a route or point of interest.

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AirSage, the company that provides Google and other sites with traffic data, has struck a deal with Verizon, which will allow them to use the location information from your phone to generate more accurate traffic reports.

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With many of us using smartphones with GPS now, we're starting to take for granted applications like Google Maps being able to pinpoint us. But using computer is a different story.

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I jumped back to me.com and clicked Find My iPhone again, and to my absolute shock and amazement, it displayed Google Maps and drew a circle around Medill St. This is an interesting (true?) tale of using the new Find My iPhone feature to recover a stolen iPhone.

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Earlier this week, Google agreed to delete unblurred images in its Street View database. If you don't know, Google Street View involves cars driving around photographing everything, so they can be placed on Google Maps. It's quite useful.

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I don't know about you, but when I look at an online map and see outlines of buildings, I get a little frustrated. I want to be able to click somewhere, and find out exactly what's there. And with a new feature in Google Maps, you can do just that.

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During last Thursday's broadcast, Keith Olbermann named anti-abortion advocate Jill Stanek as the "Worst Person in the World," chiefly because Stanek posted photos and the addresses of the only two remaining doctors who provide late-term abortions. Olbermann said:

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Moving around in Google Street View is not always intuitive. You always end up clicking aimlessly a few times before you can really figure out how to move about.

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Sometimes there are many ways to get from point A to point B, whether you are walking or driving. Until now, Google Maps' directions feature has given you the route they consider the best and allows you to drag and drop the route to change your path.

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A Melbourne man has completed a six-month-long quest to turn topography into typography. Rhett Dashwood has just published a Google Maps alphabet featuring all 26 letters which he found in man-made or naturally-occurring formations...

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The first Google Maps alphabet, featuring all 26 letters, has been created from satellite images of natural features and buildings by Rhett Dashwood, a graphic designer from Australia

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Where should new solar and wind power facilities go? Seems many of the best potential sites, including rugged, windswept regions in the Rocky Mountains to the sun-baked Mojave Desert, contain swathes of land legally set aside as national parks, or support what remains of an endan …

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